[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] Replace ocf-linux with cryptodev-linux

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:18:32PM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:42:39AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> >> Hello Kai,
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com> wrote:
>> >> > Replace ocf-linux with cryptodev-linux because linux-yocto use cryptodev-linux to implement /dev/crypto.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for handling it; I was going to address same issue this week so
>> >> we could have it upstreamed and drop the Freescale bbappends for it.
>> >
>> > So, we also have a recipe of cryptodev for TI builds. But it's not just a
>> > header file and we need the actual module to be built and packaged...
>>
>> As long as something out of tree can co-exist with in-tree implementations,
>> I don't see a problem with an incremental update that builds the module
>> as well.
>
> Thanks. So, I already have cryptodev-tests as a separate recipe that builds
> some tests from the same source, as main cryptodev. I guess I can look into
> separating module part into cryptodev-module recipe, which can be optional for
> kernels like linux-yocto that have it already patched in. Will that work?

Absolutely. It's the same dance we do with lttng-modules, so we are on solid
ground.

Bruce

>
> --
> Denys



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